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C. D.l PLATT.

man?. APPLIUATIOE FILED JARA, 1913.

Patented Apr. M, 19M.

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To all 'whom may concern l Be 1t known that l, CLARENCE I). PLA'rr,

a citizen of the United States, residing at CII - whether the threads'are male or female,.are

Bridgeport-, county have invented-an Improvement .of whichthe following is a tures and has for its object to provide a hiclrey or connection between an electrical fixture and its support, which will permit the parts to be assembled twisting the wires or of injuring thein in any way. ln other words,fl provide adequate protection for the xture .wires under all the conditions of' use. it is of course well understood that devices lof this class,

threaded or tapped with pipe taps o r dies and are tapered forthe purpose of making ltight joints without' shoulders andthatthe various parts which maire u a complete lixture; are frequently furnis ed by diEerent manufacturers. `As no standard has beeny established in the manufacture of these parts they cannot be depended upon to thread i together as accurately as is desirable or nec- -essery Sli y sure 'ordinaryfixture to any My present invention enables me to in` erectly firm'zgand rigid connections and ull protection against twisting of. the wires or anyinjury thereto inatteching anyw ordinary support. This Iaccomiplish hy providing ahickey' which may have twoinalepr two femalethreads or onemal-e thread and one female. thread, but which shall'he provided in any event with shoulders, which positively limit' the movement of either the fixture connection or the support connection in engaging the hiclrey, and With a slot into which the lixture wires are passed and which sha-ilexi tend below the upper shoulder far enough to receive the Wires and to Erotect them against any abrasion that 'mig t'inj'ure the With these and other objects in view havedevised the novel hickey which I will now describe, referring to' the 'accompanyu ing drawing forming a part of this specilication and usingreference characters to indicate'the several parte. f

.Figure l is wa vie-vvv partly in section illustrating a form of hiclrey, havingtafo .female threads, -assemof Fairfield, `State of without danger of Y is simply lervvise secured together to com shoulder in the -c otted and as the 'shoulder and partly inelevation and 1 antenatal; or retournent. Waremme spain, ima, appunanon aieatamiary 11,1913. seriaiivb.vio,iii.

bled with lizrture and'support connections as in use; Fig, 2 aplan viewon ,an enlarged scale of that form of hiclrey detached; Fi. 3 a lon'itudinall section correspending t rewith showing the 'supportgand Vtixture connections screwed down into `en agement with the corresponding shoulders;

1g. 4 a view p artly in elevation and ,partly in 'section illustratlng a form of. my novel hickey provided -with two inalethreads, and showin screwe down into engagement ,ivitlil'the shoulders; and Fi s. 5 and 6 are'sectional views illustrating each provided with one male and-one female the support and fixture connections y thread, and the corresponding shoulders. j

10 denotes the su is provided with an insulating joint l1. the form illustrated in Figiv the support connection is the fo in Vcrow foot7 and commonly known asf he insulating joint `is Pportyconnecti'on Which f provided'with a ymale thread 29, see Fi 3S 12 denotes the xture connection vv ichv a tuheV provided .with Aa male thread 30.

13 denotes the main wires and 'Ila the xture Wires.v These wires are solderedorfdth* stallatinandthe parts are o1 ered b `:rceiling canopy 15.

y y16' enotes the body of my lnovel 'hiclreyf' ,whiclfiis provided theJ connections'. yIn the form illustrated in iete ,the ine. inaricly ooit-if.

engagement with v with an opening '28; zthrough it, through which the fixture wires jpass, and\withthreads for Figs. l, Zand A3 'the body is provided. with tv'to female threads 20, the upper thread terminating in an internal shoulder 17 and the lower thread in an internal shoulder i8.

Extcndinginward from one end of the body in all the forms is a slot 19, in which the ture wires are shown in'Fig. 1. corresponding shoulder ple space-for the wires and preventpinohing.

The hickey end upward but is ordinarily Vused with the slotted' end u ward as -shown, and for convenience in da placed in assembling, as

l upper lower This slot extends 'past thev so as to provide amica. may of course'be used either escri tion lV will refer to the 4 los oit cons ruction in .allot the forms that ifea-slot extend past' thenpper shoulder farienough tokrovide tio ample space to receive the fixture wires so that when the hicltey is turned on to the support connection there can be no possibility of the end of the connection coming into contact with the wires to abrade then'i and injure the insulating covers. By placing the wires in the slot it is also insured that the wires will not become twisted in attaching the hiokey and fixture connection to the support connection. The two shoul ders are vitally.in'iportant features of construction in that they prevent the possibility of either connection being turned into the hickey far enough to injure the Wires under any condition of use.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 4, the body is provided with twohu-bs, each of which is provided with a male thread 21. In this form the slot extends entirely through the upper hub and well down into the body of the hickey, as in the other form. ,-The support connection, indicated by 22, is provided with a female thread 23 which is engaged by the male thread of the upper hub and the fixture connection indicated by 26 is provided with a female thread 27 which is engaged by the male thread of the lower hub.

24 denotes the upper shoulder and 25 the lower shoulder, both of which are external to the body of the hiclrey andare engaged by the ends of the fixture and support connections7 as in the other form. It is of course not essential that the ends of the 'connections engage the shoulders in either of the forms. They will not of course engage if the connections are shorter than the threads of the hickey. By providing the shoulders however I insure that if the threaded ends of the Connections happen to be longer than thethreads of the hiekey the movement of the connections. in engaging the hiekey will be stopped by the shoulders and no possible injury can result to the VVUeS.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 5, the upper end of the body is provided with a hub having a male thread 21 and the lower end is provided with a female thread 20. The

support connection is provided with a female thread 23 as in Fig. 4 and the fixture connection with a male thread 30 as in Fig. 3. The upper end is provided with an external upper shoulder 24 and the lower end with an internal lower" should'er 18. The slot. ex-

tends down well past the upper shoulder as in the other forms.-

The form illustrated in Fig. G is the reverse of that in Fig. 5. The upper end of the body is provided with a female thread 2O and the lower end with a hub having a male thread 2l'. Inthis'forni, the support connection is provided with aimale thread 29 as in Fig. 3-and the fixture connection with a female thread 27 as in Fig. 4. The upper end of the bod is provided with an internal upper shoul er 17 and the lower end with an external lower shoulder 25. The slot extends well down below the upper shoulder as in the other forms.

Having thus described my invention l claim v A hiekey comprising a tubular body p rn- I vided with a central longitudinal opening therethrough and having female threads at each end, shoulders at the termination of said threads, for the pur ose set forth and a longitudinal slot exten ing from one end to a point between the shoulders.

' In testimony whereof I allix iny signature in presence of two witnesses. A CLARENCE D. PLTT.

Witnesses S. W. A'ruEnToN, EDLA M. CULvnn. 

